When I was doing my service learning placement the students were doing their benchmark tests for math and science. The standard was a benchmark test to see how the students are doing. If the students weren't doing to well it would help the teacher know what she needs to reteach and go over again. Once the whole grade had taken the test all of the teachers had a meeting. The meeting was to compare classes and see which classes were missing what and why. If a class had a particular question the class did very well on that teacher would explain how she taught that idea to the rest of the teachers; if perhaps the other classes didn't do so well on a particular question. I thought that this was a very good idea, it helps the teachers to improve and try a new way of doing a subject if they need to.
I think that there was an emphasis on math, science, social studies, and reading/ language arts. She really teaches those subjects well and spends a tremendous more amount of time on those subjects. Some subjects I didn't see addressed, were art or health. I think that I didn't see those addressed maybe because I wasn't there on the day they did it. Also because they are not as vital subjects. They are subjects that will not be on end of year testing and are not subjects that have benchmark testing. I'm not quite sure how the teacher felt about standards or standardized testing, we didn't talk about.
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